Jayce regained his strength and coordination quickly, although not fast enough to suit him. He suspected there were still things Balt hadn’t told him. He was growing impatient and wanted to hear it all. Yet, however he tried to edge up to the subject in a conversation, Balt always managed to steer their talks into other paths. Still, Jayce did learn much, if not the precise facts he most wanted to know.
Here was home, Balt’s own deeded planetoid, a terra-formed moon of one of Aldebran’s planets. Upon reaching a specified age a few months earlier, and having made a good accounting of himself in the forces, Balt’s vast fortune had been released to him. He then resigned his commission and began to set up a rescue mission in hopes of getting Jayce out of what he termed “a bad situation” befor
